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Seriously though your post sums up my frustration. There's something really strange when a football clubs support start cheering and celebrating player sales and that's something i feel the majority of our support have been doing a bit too much of these past 2 years.
Of course it's got to do a lot with the mindset the board and in particular Rod Petrie and Sir Tom Farmer have quite cleverly conditioned through their spin these past 4 years since Straition 2. There's too many within us of the 'If not for Sir Tom we'd be deid', 'We're lucky to be alive' & 'We just have to accept whatever as we're fecked without this owner & board' mentality.
We now have this amazing myth of Scottish Football that Rod Petrie is some financial wizard. Bottom line is that he on his watch ran up HUGE debts that nearly cost us Easter Road. He then got very lucky IMO. He appointed Tony Mowbray. Credit to him for that. However, if not for the breakthrough of a very talented group of young players and a support who stood up to be counted he'd have found it very difficult to clear up the mess of his creation.
That said you can make your own luck. If he made his then bottom line is all that matters and the mess he created has been cleared up. However, it's thanks to supporters putting their hands in their pockets in increasing numbers and selling off the family silver.
Now though that we're debt free (We are of course but for obvious reasons this board would never proclaim that. Just in the same way we're £20 Million in debt when it suits their agenda and the 'debt' doesn't become a 'debt' as it's a mortgage when it suits another agenda..) this is when we find out just how good a Cheif Executive/Managing Director/Chairman he really is.
I wet the bed all feckin summer as i was pissed off at the lack of reinvestment in the squad. We've thus far exceeded all reasonable expectations on the park under JC & TC. However, wetting the bed again i honestly can't see this continuing unless we add to the squad in January. Unfortunately though i don't see this. I see us losing more of the squad. Jones, Buezelin, Murphy, Benji & Fletcher in that order are IMO all at risk of going in January.
There's a bebate to be had on the merits of Colin Nish but what shouldn't be up for debate is when a club who've raked in Rollover Lottery Transfer Funds (£12 Million in 20 months?) allegedly denies (The long delay in signing Curier adds weight..) their Manager less than 1% of that to buy that player in the summer...
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Dude, I've criticised the board consistently for what I perceive as their various faults, and me calling some people bedwetters was due to the predicitons of things like "we'll struggle to make the top 6", "we're relegation candidates" and other such levels of slavering pish. I thought then that people were acting like hysterical 3 years olds and completely ignoring the facts of what we still had on the park compared to the rest of the league. It's not like it's the end of the season yet, but I would say that me criticising people for what I considered to be unfounded pessimism has so far went a lot more in my favour than those who I was criticising...
The sale of Whittaker I wasn't against because I felt he was completely replaceable by McCann. I'm not against selling players for a decent chunk of cash if we have a replacement already available.
We are not going to be able to compete with the OF in the transfer market so we have to compete with them in other ways. The only way that I can see that ever being a remotely realistic proposition is by forcing them to empty their coffers to buy players from us who we can replace from within.
I've also said consistently that the wage bill should be increased susbstantially, not to bring players in, but to keep a hold of our young players for longer. They're the best quality players we are going to have at ER. Look at the criticism of Kerr that there's been (from you in particular might I add). He has been one of the better central midfielders in the SPL outside the top 4 or 5 clubs over the last couple of years and he is already being considered not good enough for Hibs! So it isn't like buying players from other sides in the SPL is going to be much of long term strategy we appear to be able to rely on. As it stands I quite like the signing strategy that Mowbray and Collins appear to have both settled on of gambling on young players they see some potential in who are low cost so don't cripple the wage bill if they don't work out. The alternative to that is signing someone like Belsija who Hearts signed for £1m and £9k a week. And was shit.
All of this has of course been dependent on getting out of debt. That's now achieved in all but name. The boards wonderful idea is to put us straight back into debt by building a new East Stand. If they want to build a new stand, find the funding from something other than having to sell a player a season for the next three or four years. That's their job, and it's the only way we can progress on the park short term.